Here's an easy way to rack up the Facebook comments and raise your Klout score: post this video. After an initial listen, I threw it out to my friends, adding, "New Prince. Trite phoned-in bullshit or just a near-miss at a return-to-form? I'm on the fence." The comments rolled in and debate ensued, because, by now, we've each adopted differing expectation levels for new Prince material. For the tolerant, or anybody that's endured the last decade or so, the bar is low. The camp I'm in can't get past the groundbreaking greatness of his heyday and will forever grade on a curve. One friend wrote, "It lacks the signature Prince sing-a-long chorus, so it's not really complete. It's an unfinished Prince song." Another said, "...smooth and solid. The strength is in the understatement and subtlety of the dynamics.... precision musicianship only a few on earth can match." The more I listen, the more I suspect both friends are right. What's undeniable — and perhaps gives us the first impression that's it's phoned-in — is how effortless it sounds. And it looks effortless, too: At one point in the video, he's playing piano and guitar at the same time. I'd prefer a little less showboating and a lot more sweat. But the comment I'm slowly coming around to was so undeniable, so hard to posit an argument against, that it wound up the final comment in the thread: "Don't over-think it. It grooves. " Indeed, it does.

Because of the last sixty seconds — a dissonant, blistering, Gary Clark Jr. solo.

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4 of 10

Eric Burdon and the Greenhornes,"Out of My Mind," Eric Burdon and the Greenhornes

Because this Brendan Benson-produced collaboration between the ex-Animals belter and Jack White's favorite garage band is singularly nostalgic and timeless — not a moment of these torrid blues would have sounded out of place in 1969.

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5 of 10

Rage Against the Machine, "Bullet in Your Head (Live)," XX (20th Anniversary Edition)

Because her voice splits the difference between Lucinda Williams and Stevie Nicks, while Brett Dennen's production oozes classic Laurel Canyon dreaminess. A win-win.

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7 of 10

Battleme & The Forest Rangers, "Lights," Sons of Anarchy: Volume 2

Because if the Flaming Lips had written an original song for their Dark Side of the Moon live shows, this is what it might've sounded like.

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8 of 10

Rhythms Del Mundo, "I Need a Dollar," Africa

Because this is the kind of "world music" we can get behind: A should've-been-a-hit-in-America, huge-in-the-UK tune from California soul singer Aloe Blacc gets a bouncy, multi-lingual facelift from some of Africa's finest musicians to benefit climate change relief efforts.

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9 of 10

Solange, "Losing You," True

Because at any moment, this could segue into a pitch-perfect "Like a Prayer" cover but doesn't.

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10 of 10

Scott Walker, "Epizootics!" Bish Bosch

Because there are at least seven different songs spread across these ten minutes — at least 6.7 of which are bizarre and intriguing. File the other.3 — the part Scott Walker fanatics will really dig — under bizarre and unlistenable.